Monday, November 07, 2016

Senior Shiv Sena leader and Shirur MP Shivajirao Adhalrao Patil on Friday slammed the state government's decision to set up a two-runway airport at Purandar, barely a week after he displayed the Airports Authority of India's documents rejecting the Khed site -unfit for parallel airfields.
"There is no point having a two-runway airport in Pune. If one looks at most of the successful airports in the country , most of them have single runway . Only the big airports in Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad have more than one runway . Every airport, including the existing facility in Pune, sees an average increase of 10% in passenger traffic each year. If the new airport is built in Purandar, the passenger traffic will slide because of transportation issues," Patil told TOI.
07/11/16 Joy Sengupta/The Times Of India